Since that time, we have seen faculty taking note of the cost of some e-journal packages and collections of titles, most notably the $2.9 million figure from Purdue when that institution came close to cancelling their Elsevier package in December. (“Purdue re-signs contract for online scholastic access” )

In order to keep Iowa faculty informed about the cost of journals from a variety of sources, we offer these figures for University of Iowa costs from FY 2011:

Publisher

Cost

# of Titles

Elsevier

$ 1,641,530

2095

Wiley/Blackwell

$ 868,031

1304

Springer

$ 607,540

400

Sage

$ 243,647

608

JSTOR

$ 97,602

2319

Cambridge UP

$ 43,940

145

Project Muse

$ 33,210

500

Oxford UP

$ 21,313

250

Please note that the JSTOR figure is for back content (the so-called moving wall), not current issues.

The following chart offers another way to view the relative size shares of the pie different publishers receive from our acquisitions budget (the denominator for these percentages is total spending on e-journals). The data is slightly older than that used above.